Echoes of the tango-loving Buenos Aires of the past are recorded in these everyday scenes accompanying the arrival on the intimate stage of a milonga by 21st century men and women.

The photographs provide an inkling of the ritual: from the look that assesses before the mirror the silhouette of a woman in from the outskirts, to the moment when she falls into the arms of her swaggering “compadrito” so that together they can lose all sense of time and space in the steps of one of the most sensuous dances on the planet. Details of secret Buenos Aires and the fascinating world of the milonga are revealed in images that seduce and provoke.